It’s just about as simple as it sounds! The #1 non-drug therapy I turn to when I need relief from pain is heat.
Heat is a great therapy to fall back on when you don’t want to have to take medicine, or when you can’t take medicine, or when you’re already taking too much. (Ahem. I take fourteen pills a day before any painkillers even enter the picture. I like to limit my need for them as much as possible.) It’s not often when a chronic pain patient can feel genuinely good, but heat provides for at least a small reprieve. The relaxation is an obvious benefit on its own, and it can also help reduce pain that comes from muscle tension (like those pesky migraines of mine), but it also helps relieve pain that isn’t related to muscle tension at all.
There are any number of ways to use heat…
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